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		philjohn on July 5, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FreeBSD at 30: Its secrets to success That makes me feel old. I was running FreeBSD back when that split happened, I can't believe it's been 20 years. I think the BSD ecosystem was harmed more by the SCO lawsuit, and the rise of Linux than by the Dragonfly/FreeBSD split.

tiffanyh on July 5, 2023 [–]

You might be confusing SCO and USL.

SCO brought lawsuits against IBM (Linux) in 2003.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group,_Inc._v._Internati....

USL brought lawsuit against BSD in 1992.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_In....

loeg on July 6, 2023 | | [–]

Novell bought USL in 1993 and sold the corpse to SCO in 1995. They're related entities.

philjohn on July 6, 2023 | | [–]

You're indeed right.

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